Parallels Desktop 5 Compared to VMWare Fusion 3
It was just last week that VMWare release Fusion 3, and this week Parallels responds with the release of Desktop 5 for Mac. Like Fusion 3 Parallels made claims to several interesting claims along with many new and unique features such as:
- 300% Increase in performance of Parallels 4
- OpenGL 2.1 and DirectX 9.0E Support
- Multi-Touch Gesture Support on Trackpads
- New Utilities like Parallels Compressor
- New Mode of Operation – Crystal
- Support for up to 8 Virtual CPU’s
WIth such an impressive list of features I owed it to myself to look yet again at the new version and it ultimately lead me down the path of doing a feature comparison and some informal benchmarking. t It was thru these tests and comparing operation on both a MacBookPro and MacPro that has made me determine which Virtualization Software I will stick with.
The Screencast below will give you a brief comparison of VMWare Fusion 3 and Parallels 5, along with showing the different operating modes of Parallels. By the end of this screencast I discuss my experience and the performance I was able to achieve comparing Fusion 3 to Parallels 5. I think you may be surprised by the results.